Man turns in backpack filled with pipe bombs

SANTEE: A man who found seven pipe bombs in a backpack turned them in to the Sheriff's Department substation in Santee yesterday, prompting authorities to evacuate nearby businesses.

The man walked into the station on Cuyamaca Street, near Buena Vista Avenue, around 2:15 p.m. and left the backpack in the lobby, Lt. Mike Munsey said. The man said he found the bag with the bombs the night before, and one of them was leaking.